Adam Ussishkin – page 1 Adam Ussishkin Curriculum Vitae
Department of Linguistics University of Arizona 1100 E. University Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85721 (520) 626-7121
[email protected] http://ussishkin.org Citizenship: Canada and USA
Education
2000 Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1995 B.A., Summa Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles. Linguistics and French with departmental honors.
1993-1994 University of California Education Abroad Program; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
1989-1990 Educational Foundation for Foreign Study; Lycée Polyvalent Lamarck, Albert (Somme), France.
Employment
2008 – present Associate Professor Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Also affiliated at the University of Arizona with: Ph.D. Program in Cognitive Science Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Department of Near Eastern Studies Arizona Center for Judaic Studies Center for Middle Eastern Studies
2003 - 2008 Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2001-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2001, Summer Guest researcher Department of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001, Winter Lecturer Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Wedel, A., Ussishkin, A., and King, A. (To appear). Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal: Phonological neutralization targets word-ends over beginnings. Language.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 2 Wedel, A., Ussishkin, A., and King, A. (2019). Incremental word processing influences the evolution of phonotactic patterns. Folia Linguistica Historica, 40(1):231-248. https://doi.org/10.1515/flih- 2019-0011.
Geary, J., and Ussishkin, A. (2018). Root-letter priming in Maltese visual word recognition. The Mental Lexicon, 13(1):1-29. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.18001.gea
Hammond, M., Chen, Y., Bell, E., Carnie, A., Archangeli, D., Ussishkin, A., and Fisher, M. (2017). Phonological restrictions on lenition in Scottish Gaelic. Language, 93(2):466-472. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2017.0020
Ussishkin, A., Warner, N., Clayton, I., Brenner, D., Carnie, A., Hammond, M., and Fisher, M. (2017). Lexical representation and processing of word-initial morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 8. http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.22
Ussishkin, A., Dawson, C., Wedel, A., and Schluter, K. (2015). Auditory masked priming in Maltese spoken word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30:1096-1115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1005635
Francom, J., Hulden, M, and Ussishkin, A. (2014). ACTIV-ES: a comparable, cross-dialect corpus of ‘everyday’ Spanish from Argentina, Mexico, and Spain. Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Iceland, June 2014, 1733–1737.
Francom, J., Ussishkin, A., and LaCross, A., (2010). How specialized are specialized corpora? Behavioral evaluation of corpus representativeness for Maltese. Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference (LREC), Malta, May 2010, 421-427.
Francom, J., Woudstra, D., and Ussishkin, A. (2009). Creating a web-based lexical corpus and information-extraction tools for the Semitic language Maltese”. Proceedings of the SEPLN- SALTMIL 2009 Workshop: Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for Less Resourced Languages, University of the Basque Country, 9-16.
Ussishkin, A. (2006). Semitic morphology: root-based or word-based? Morphology 16:37-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-006-0002-6
Ussishkin, A. (2006). Affix-favored contrast inequity and psycholinguistic grounding for nonconcatenative morphology. Morphology 16:107-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-006- 0005-3
Ussishkin, A. (2005). A fixed prosodic theory of nonconcatenative templatic morphology.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 23:169-218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-003-7790-8
Graf, D., and Ussishkin, A. (2003). Emergent iambs: Stress assignment in Modern Hebrew. Lingua 113:239-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3841(02)00087-6
Ussishkin, A. (1999). The inadequacy of the consonantal root: Modern Hebrew denominal verbs and output-output correspondence. Phonology 16:401-442. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0952675799003796
Edited volumes Sims, A., Ussishkin, A., Parker, J., and Wray, S., eds. In contract. Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition. Cambridge University Press.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 3 Book reviews
Ussishkin, A. (2009). Review of Laura J. Downing (2006). Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology. (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 12, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. x+284) Phonology 26:363-366. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0952675709990169
Peer-reviewed book chapters
Wray, S., and Ussishkin, A., (To appear). Productivity effects on morphological processing in Maltese auditory word recognition. In Sims, A., Ussishkin, A., Parker, J., and Wray, S., eds. Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition. Cambridge University Press.
Meyer, J. R. , Kloehn, N., Carnie, A., Archangeli, D., Clayton, I., Fisher, M., Hammond, M., Ussishkin, A., and Warner, N. (2018). The field is not the lab, and the lab is not the field: Experimental linguistics and endangered language communities. In S. T. Bischoff and C. Jany, eds., Insights from Practices in Community-Based Research From Theory To Practice Around The Globe, 296- 313. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110527018
Galea, L., and Ussishkin, A. (2018). Onset clusters, syllable structure and syllabification in Maltese. In P. Paggio and A. Gatt, eds., The Languages of Malta, 55-79. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. https://zenodo.org/record/1181789
Smith, L.C., and Ussishkin, A. (2015). The role of prosodic templates in diachrony and dialects: Prosodically-driven language change. In P. Honeybone and J. Salmons, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology, 262-288. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232819.013.028
Cohen, E., and Ussishkin, A. (2013). Stress: Modern Hebrew. In G. Kahn, ed., Encyclopaedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (EHLL), 979-981. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Ussishkin, A. (2011). Tier segregation. M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewan, E. Hume and K. Rice, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 2516-2537.
Ussishkin, A., and Wedel, A. (2009). Lexical Access, Effective Contrast and Patterns in the Lexicon. In P. Boersma and S. Hamann, eds., Phonology in Perception. Mouton de Gruyter, 267-292.
Ussishkin, A., and Twist, A. (2009). Auditory and Visual Lexical Decision in Maltese. In B. Comrie, R. Fabri, B. Hume, M. Mifsud, T. Stolz, and M. Vanhove, eds., Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Proceedings of the 1st International conference on Maltese Linguistics. Studies in Language Companion Series. John Benjamins, Philadelphia/Amsterdam, 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.113.16uss
Ussishkin, A. (2007). Morpheme Position. In P. De Lacy, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, 457-472. Cambridge University Press, New York. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511486371.020
Ussishkin, A. (2003). Templatic Effects as Fixed Prosody: The Verbal System in Semitic. In J. Lecarme, ed., Research in Afroasiatic Grammar 2, 511-530. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.241.23uss
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Morphology 16 (2006). Special issue on Semitic morphology.
Conference proceedings
Geary, J., and Ussishkin, A. (2019). Morphological priming without semantic relationship in Hebrew spoken word recognition. Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America.https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4509
Hume, E., Hall, K.C., Wedel, A., Ussishkin, A., Adda-Decker, M., and Gendrot, C. (2013). Anti- Markedness Patterns in French Epenthesis: An Information Theoretic Approach. In C. Cathcart, I.-H. Chen, G. Finley, S. Kang, C. Sandy, and E. Stickles, eds., Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. pp.104-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v37i1.3196
Wedel, A., and Ussishkin, A. (2003). Gestural Motor Programs and the Nature of Phonotactic Restrictions: Evidence from Loanword Phonology. In G. Garding and M. Tsujimira, eds., Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics [WCCFL] 22: 505-518.
Ussishkin, A., and Wedel, A. (2002). Neighborhood Density and the Root-Affix Distinction. In M. Hirotani, ed., Proceedings of the Northeastern Linguistics Society [NELS] 32:539-549.
Ussishkin, A. (2000). Root-and-Pattern Morphology Without Roots or Patterns. In M. Hirotani, A. Coetzee, N. Hall, J.-Y. Kim, eds., Proceedings of the Northeastern Linguistics Society [NELS] 30:655-670.
Ussishkin, A. (2000). Fixed Prosodic Effects in Austronesian: An Optimality-Theoretic Account. In M. Klamer, ed., Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association [AFLA] 7:259- 270.
Ussishkin, A. (1999). Roots and Correspondence: Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew. In J. Maye and M. Miyashita, eds., Proceedings of the 4th Southwestern Optimality Theory Workshop [SWOT].
Karvonen, D., and Sherman [Ussishkin], A. (1998). Opacity in Icelandic: A Sympathy Account. In P. Tamanji and K. Kusumoto, eds., Proceedings of the Northeastern Linguistics Society [NELS] 28:189-201.
Sherman [Ussishkin], A. (1997). VP Ellipsis and Subject Positions in Modern Hebrew. In A. Z. Wayner, ed., Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Israel Association Of Theoretical Linguistics [IATL], 211-229.
Working papers
Ussishkin, A. (1999). Head Dominance in Modern Hebrew Prosodic Morphology. In A. Ussishkin, D. Herrick, K. Kurisu, and N. Sanders, eds., Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC] 6:71-82.
Karvonen, D., and Sherman [Ussishkin], A. (1997). Sympathy, Opacity, and U-Umlaut in Icelandic. In R. Walker, M. Katayama, and D. Karvonen, eds., Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC] 5:37-48.
Dissertation
Ussishkin, A. (2000). The Emergence of Fixed Prosody. UC Santa Cruz. Dissertation committee: Professors Armin Mester (chair), Junko Ito, and Jaye Padgett.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 5 Grants and contracts
2019-2020 National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation research improvement grant (Principle Investigator; Jonathan Geary, Co-PI/dissertator); $11,729 (direct costs), BCS-1918143, The Constraints of Dual Morphological Systems on Visual Word Processing in Maltese.
2017-2018 National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation research improvement grant (Principle Investigator; Shiloh Drake, Co-PI/dissertator); $11,816 (direct costs), BCS-1732190, L1 Biases in Learning Root-and-Pattern Morphology
2016-2018 National Science Foundation workshop grant (co-Principal Investigator with Andrea Sims, P.I.); $29,088.00 (direct costs), BCS-1623932, Workshop: Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition, held at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, July 22-23, 2017, University of Kentucky.
2015-2016 National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation research improvement grant (Principle Investigator; Samantha Wray, Co-PI/dissertator); $10,711.00 (direct costs), BCS-1533780, Morphological Decomposition in Arabic
2015-2017 National Science Foundation research grant, co-funded with SBE-RCUK (co- Principal Investigator with Mike Hammond (P.I.), Diana Archangeli (co-P.I.), Heddwen Brooks (co-P.I.), Andrew Carnie (co-P.I.), Diane Ohala (co-P.I.), Peredur Webb-Davies (co-P.I.), and Andrew Wedel (co-P.I.)); $377,718.00 (direct costs), BCS-1453724, Experimental and Descriptive Investigations of Welsh (cym) Consonant Mutation
2015 Faculty research development grant, Office of Global Initiatives, University of Arizona. $850.00, collaborative research on Maltese Semitic vs. non-Semitic vocabulary (with Ray Fabri and Michael Spagnol, University of Malta)
2013 Faculty research development grant, Office of Global Initiatives, University of Arizona. $800.00, collaborative research on Maltese lexical access (with Ray Fabri and Albert Gatt, University of Malta)
2012-2014 National Science Foundation research grant (co-Principal Investigator with Andrew Carnie (P.I.), Diana Archangeli (co-P.I.), Mike Hammond (co-P.I.) and Natasha Warner (co-P.I.); $300,170.00 (direct costs), BCS-1144318, Experimental and descriptive investigations of Gàidhlig Initial Consonant Mutation
2010 Small grant, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona (Principal Investigator); $1500.00, Word Familiarity in Hebrew and Arabic
2009 Faculty research development grant, International Affairs, University of Arizona. $1,110.00, Collaborative Research on the Electronic Maltese-English Dictionary
2009-2013 Maltese-English Electronic Dictionary contract, Midsea Publishers, Inc. (Principal Investigator); $21,000.00
2008 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Grant, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona (Co-Principal Investigator, with Norma Mendoza-Denton and Andrew Wedel); $8855.00, Modeling Intergroup Differentiation: the Sociolinguistics of Arizona Englishes
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 6 2007-2010 National Science Foundation research grant (Principal Investigator); $114,728.00 (direct costs), BCS-0715500, Psycholinguistic Investigation of Lexical Access in Hebrew and Maltese
2006 Small grant, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona (Principal Investigator); $800.00, Hebrew Morphological Family Size Experiment
2005 Graduate Assistance Grant, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona (Principal Investigator); 0.25 FTE for graduate research assistant employed Fall 2005, Electronic Maltese-English Dictionary Project
2005 National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation research improvement grant (Principle Investigator; Alina Twist, Co-PI/dissertator); $11,952.00 (direct costs), BCS-0449757, A Study of Diverging Morphology: Native and Loan Verb Formation in Modern Maltese
2004 Foreign travel grant, Office of International Affairs; $500.00 for travel to present paper at the Old World Conference in Phonology 2, Tromsø, Norway.
2004 Academic year proposal development award, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona; $4000.00
2004 Junior faculty grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Arizona (Principal Investigator); $4,000.00, Psycholinguistic investigation of Modern Hebrew word formation
2004 Small grant, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona (Principal Investigator); $1500.00, Mental retrieval of words in Maltese
2004 Foreign travel grant, Office of International Affairs; $650.00 for travel to present paper at the 11th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria
Fellowships, honors and awards
2015 Visiting Fellowship Award, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University.
2000 Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz.
1998 University of California Regents Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz.
1997 Teaching Leadership Award, Pew Charitable Trusts and University of Minnesota.
1995 University of California Regents Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz.
1995 Phi Beta Kappa.
1993-1994 University of California Alumni Scholarship, UCLA.
1991-1995 University of California Regents Scholarship, UCLA.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 7 Invited talks “Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphological structure in lexical access.” Invited talk, Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta, May 24, 2019.
“Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphological structure in lexical access.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, April 19, 2019.
“Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphological structure in lexical access.” Invited talk, Israel Phonology Circle, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University. April 1, 2019.
“Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphological structure in lexical access.” Invited talk, Department of English, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco. November 23, 2018.
“When morphology is more than mere form.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. November 16, 2018.
“Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access.” Invited talk, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. June 7, 2018.
“Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, March 16, 2018.
“Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, February 16, 2018.
“Morphology facilitates Maltese word recognition.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego, October 23, 2017.
“Semitic words mediate auditory word recognition: The roles of form and productivity.” Invited talk, Second Workshop on Spoken Morphology, University of Düsseldorf, August 24, 2017.
“The Semitic firewall: Maltese roots and lexical access.” Invited talk, Roots V Workshop, Queen Mary University and University College London, London, June 17, 2017.
“What can auditory masked priming tell us about the role of morphology in auditory word recognition?” Invited talk, Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta, March 8, 2017.
“What can auditory masked priming tell us about the role of morphology in auditory word recognition?” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlingon, December 2, 2016.
“Morphology Facilitates Word Recognition Independently of Phonology: Evidence from Auditory Masked Priming.” Invited talk, Cognitive Science Colloquium, Univerisity of Arizona. September 23, 2016.
“Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological: Exploring lexical access using auditory masked priming.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Univerisity of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. June 24, 2016.
“Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological: Exploring lexical access using auditory masked priming.” Invited talk, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. June 23, 2016.
“Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon. April 14, 2016.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 8 “Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California. November 2, 2015.
“Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa. October 9, 2015.
“Morphological and Phonological Aspects of Maltese Spoken Word Recognition.” Invited talk, Phonetics Institute, University of Cologne. June 22, 2015.
“Morphological Decomposition in Hebrew Spoken Word Recognition.” Invited talk, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. June 10, 2015.
“Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh. June 8, 2015.
“Morphological Priming in Scottish Gaelic Initial Consonant Mutation.” Invited talk, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. June 4, 2015.
“Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological.” Invited talk, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York. May 27, 2015.
“Morphological and Phonological Aspects of Maltese Spoken Word Recognition.” Invited talk, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. May 20, 2015.
“When Morphology Helps but Phonology Hurts.” Invited talk, Department of Cognitive Science, UC Merced, September 9, 2013.
“Morphological Decomposition in Hebrew Spoken Word Recognition.” Invited talk, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3, 2013.
“Morphological Decomposition in Hebrew Spoken Word Recognition”. Invited talk, Linguistics Circle, Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta, March 15, 2013.
“Maltese Spoken Word Recognition and the Structure of the Semitic Lexicon”. Invited talk, Malta Centre Inauguration, University of Bremen, June 30, 2012.
“Subliminal Speech Priming and Maltese Lexical Access”. Invited talk, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behavior, University of Canterbury, May 31, 2012.
“Subliminal Speech Priming”. Invited talk, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behavior, University of Canterbury, May 24, 2012.
“Subliminal Speech Priming and Maltese Lexical Access”. Invited lecture, University of North Carolina, March 2, 2012.
“Psycholinguistics of under-studied languages: The case of subliminal speech priming in Maltese”. Invited lecture, Wake Forest University, March 1, 2012.
“Subliminal Speech Priming and Maltese Lexical Access.” Invited colloquium talk, Northwestern University, February 10, 2012.
“Lexical access and two types of priming in Maltese.” Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique, Paris, France, October 21, 2011.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 9 “Lexical access and two types of priming in Maltese.” Basque Center for Brain, Cognition, and Language, San Sebastian, Spain, October 14, 2011.
“Entropy and Phonological Contrast.” With Kathleen Currie Hall and Andrew Wedel, Workshop on Information-Theoretic Approaches to Linguistics, LSA Summer Institute 2011, University of Colorado, July 17, 2011.
“Speech Perception and Lexical Access in Semitic: The case of Maltese.” Invited keynote talk, Workshop on Phonology, University of Toronto, March 18, 2011.
“Speech Perception and Lexical Access in Semitic: The case of Maltese.” Invited talk, McMaster University, March 17, 2011.
“The contribution of corpus-based and psycholinguistic research to understanding the Maltese lexicon.” Invited keynote talk, Arabic Linguistics Symposium, University of Arizona, March 4, 2011.
“Roots and patterns in Maltese spoken word recognition.” Invited colloquium talk, Ohio State University, November 22, 2010.
“Roots and patterns in Maltese spoken word recognition.” Invited plenary address, Arizona Linguistics Circle Conference, University of Arizona. October 15, 2010.
“Roots and patterns in Maltese spoken word recognition.” Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University. September 30, 2010
“Lexical access in Maltese and Hebrew: the intersection of corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics.” Invited talk, CUNY Conference on the Word in Phonology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, January 14, 2010.
“Word frequency and familiarity in Maltese: a psycholinguistic and corpus-based comparison.” With Amy LaCross. Invited conference talk, L-Għaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija, University of Bremen, Germany. September 21, 2009.
“The PsyCoL Maltese lexical corpus.” Invited conference talk/workshop presentation, L-Għaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija, University of Bremen, Germany. September 20, 2009.
“The root in Semitic languages.” With Amy LaCross. Invited interdisciplinary colloquium, Department of Maltese and Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta. January 21, 2009.
“Semitic morphology: Root-Based and word-based.” With Amy LaCross. Invited talk, Workshop on the Root, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. December 28, 2008.
“A hybrid model of the Semitic lexicon: Psycholinguistic evidence from Hebrew.” With Amy LaCross. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University. December 11, 2008.
“Psycholinguistic evidence for a hybrid theory of the Semitic lexicon.” Invited colloquium talk, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Interdisciplinary Program, University of Arizona. February 15, 2008.
“Lexical access in Maltese using visual and auditory lexical decision.” With Alina Twist. Invited conference talk, L-Għaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija, University of Bremen, Germany. October 19, 2007.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 10 “Psycholinguistic evidence for a hybrid theory of the Semitic lexicon.” Invited talk, Laboratoire de science cognitive et psycholinguistique, Paris, France. October 16, 2007.
“Psycholinguistic evidence for a hybrid theory of the Semitic lexicon.” Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego. October 1, 2007.
“Lexical access in Semitic: Theoretical and experimental results in Hebrew and Maltese.” Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. March 23, 2007.
“Lexical access in Semitic: Theoretical and experimental results in Hebrew, Arabic, and Maltese.” With Alina Twist. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. November 20, 2006.
“Conspiracies of Contrast in Paradigm Structure.” With Andrew Wedel. Invited talk, University of Victoria, January 25, 2006.
“Bases of affixation in Semitic: Psycholinguistic evidence from Hebrew and Maltese.” Invited talk, University of Victoria, January 24, 2006.
“Vowels Matter Too: A Word-Based Model of Semitic Morphology.” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College. October 22, 2004.
“Conspiracies of Contrast.” With Andrew Wedel. Invited talk, Cognitive Science Master Seminar, University of Arizona. September 16, 2004.
“A Word-Based Model of Semitic Nonconcatenative Templatic Morphology.” Invited colloquium talk, Department of English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 8, 2004.
“Gestural Motor Programs and the Nature of Phonotactic Restrictions: Evidence from Loanword Phonology.” With Andrew Wedel. Invited colloquium talk, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona. January 20, 2004.
“Prosodic anchoring and prosodic contiguity in Optimality Theory: Eliminating All-Edge Alignment in directionality and size restriction.” Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. October 31, 2003.
“A word-based model of Semitic: Universals, psycholinguistics, and the emergence of fixed prosody.” Invited keynote talk at annual Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference, UC Santa Cruz, March 8, 2003.
“A word-based model of Semitic: Universals, psycholinguistics, and the emergence of fixed prosody.” Invited talk, University of Chicago, February, 2003.
“Constraining Abstractness in the Lexicon.” Invited talk, University of South Carolina. February 11, 2003.
“Markedness in Phonology: Past, Present, and Possible Future.” Invited talk, University of Kansas. January 31, 2003.
“Semitic word structure: Phonological Theory Meets Psycholinguistic Considerations.” Invited talk, University of Kansas. January 30, 2003.
“A Word-Based Model of Semitic: Universals, Fixed Prosody, and Morphological Structure.” Invited talk, University of Southern California. January 16, 2003.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 11 “A Fixed Prosodic Account of Nonconcatenative Templatic Morphology.” Invited colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. November, 2001.
“Root-and-Pattern Morphology Without Roots and Without Patterns” Invited phonology workshop talk, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. July 16, 2001.
“Maximal Stem Size and Faithfulness in Modern Hebrew: Nonconcatenative Morphology as Fixed Prosody.” Invited phonology workshop talk, Stanford University. February 17, 2000.
“Evidence for Challenging the Consonantal Root.” Invited colloquium talk, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. July, 1999.
“Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew.” Invited colloquium talk, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. April, 1998.
Invited courses and workshops “How to design and implement an auditory masked priming experiment.” Invited workshop, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. 29 May, 2018.
“Morphology in language processing.” Invited course, Advanced Core Training in Linguistics (ACTL) summer school, Department of Linguistics, University College London. June 12-16, 2017.
“Creating and running auditory masked priming experiments.” Invited workshop, Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta. March 20, 2017.
“Creating and running auditory masked priming experiments.” Invited workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. June 27, 2016.
“Creating and running auditory masked priming experiments.” Invited workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon. April 15, 2016.
“Buiding corpora for understudied languages.” Invited workshop, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. June 11, 2015.
“Maltese morphology and psycholinguistic methods.” Invited course, Maltese Week, University of Bremen/Malta Centre, March 16-20, 2015.
Conference presentations Geary, J., and Ussishkin, A. (2019). “Morphological priming without semantic relationship in Hebrew spoken word recognition”. The 93rdAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2019), New York City, NY, January 5, 2019.
Wedel, A., Ussishkin, A. “Phonological grammars evolve to preserve information at word beginnings.” LabPhon 16 Satellite Workshop: The role of predictability in shaping human sound systems, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 23 June 2018.
Wedel, A., Ussishkin, A. King, A., Martin, J., and Geary, J. “Phonological grammars evolve to preserve information at word beginnings.” Evolang 12, Torun, Poland, 17 April 2018.
Geary, J., and Ussishkin, A. “Root-letter priming in Maltese visual word recognition.” LSA Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 7 January 2018.
Wray, S., and Ussishkin, A. “Binyan productivity effects on morphological processing in Maltese auditory word recognition.” Workshop on Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 22 July 2017.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 12 Gatt, A., and Ussishkin, A. “Roots, or merely consonants? Or: What are priming effects due to?” 6th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (GħILM 6), Comemius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, June 8, 2017.
Ussishkin, A., Velan, H., Spagnol, M., Wedel, A., and Wray, S. “Maltese root priming is morphological, not phonological.” Poster presented at the 22nd AMLaP (Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing) Conference, Basque Center for Brain and Language, Bilbao, Spain, September 2, 2016.
Ussishkin, A., Galea, L., Wedel, A., and Wray, S. “Maltese templates and vocalic melodies are phonological: evidence from auditory priming.” 5th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (GħILM 5), University of Torino, June 25, 2015.
Ussishkin, A., Velan, H., and Spagnol, M. “Root priming in Maltese: form-based or morphological?” 5th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (GħILM 5), University of Torino, June 25, 2015.
Ussishkin, A., Galea, L., and Wray, S. “Phonology vs. morphology: How auditory lexical decision in Maltese resolves the conflict.” Poster presented at the 23rd annual Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, May 30, 2015.
Ussishkin, A., Galea, L., Wedel, A., and Wray, S. “The phonological status of Maltese word patterns: Evidence from auditory priming.” LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, January 11, 2015.
Smith, L.C., and Ussishkin, A. “The role of prosodic templates in diachrony.” Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh, January 14, 2014.
Haugen, J., and Ussishkin, A. “Base-dependent reduplication and learnability.” LSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, January 5, 2014.
Warner, N., Clayton, I., Carnie, A., Fisher, M., Brenner, D., Hammond, M., Archangeli, D., and Ussishkin, A. (2013). Perception of Scottish Gaelic alternating (leniting) consonants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), 4070-4070. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4830860
Francom, J., and Ussishkin, A. “Converging methodologies: Assessing corpus representativeness through psycholinguistic measures.” American Association of Corpus Linguistics, Georgia State University. October 7, 2011.
Ussishkin, A., and Schluter, K. “Supraliminal and subliminal root and binyan priming in Maltese.” 3rd International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (Għilm 3), University of Malta, April 10, 2011.
Ussishkin, A., Schluter, K., and Wedel, A. “The psychological reality of the consonantal root in Maltese: Evidence from supraliminal and subliminal auditory priming.” Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) 8, Marrakech, January 21, 2011.
Francom, J., and Ussishkin, A. “Predicting word frequency effects from corpora: An investigation of corpus size and sampling methods.” LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, January 8, 2011.
Ussishkin, A., and Schluter, K. “Supraliminal and subliminal root priming in Maltese.” LSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, January 7, 2011.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 13 Francom, J., Ussishkin, A., and LaCross, A. “How specialized are specialized corpora? Behavioral evaluation of corpus representativeness for Maltese.” Language Resource Evaluation Conference (LREC), Malta, May 19, 2010.
Francom, J., Woudstra, D., and Ussishkin, A. “Electronic corpora for two Semitic languages.” American Association of Corpus Linguistics, University of Alberta, October 10, 2009.
Francom, J., Woudstra, D., and Ussishkin, A. “Creating a web-based lexical corpus and information- extraction tools for the Semitic language Maltese.” Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages, Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, September 7, 2009.
Ussishkin, A. “How often do you visit your relatives? Family size and word frequency in Hebrew lexical access.” UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Alumni Conference, September 12, 2008.
Ussishkin, A., Brewer, J., and LaCross, A. Morphological family size in Hebrew auditory lexical decision.” LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 6, 2008.
Ussishkin, A., and Twist, A. “Bases of affixation in Semitic: Psycholinguistic evidence from Hebrew and Maltese.” LSA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 7, 2006.
Ussishkin, A., and Wedel, A. “Conspiracies of Contrast in Paradigm Structure.” Old World Conference in Phonology 2, University of Tromsø, Norway, January 22, 2005.
Ussishkin, A. “A Word-Based Model of Semitic Nonconcatenative Templatic Morphology.” 11th Annual Morphology Meeting. University of Vienna, Austria, February 16, 2004.
Ussishkin, A. “OT Metaconstraints: Universally-Fixed Rankings or Grounded Tendencies?” Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory [SWOT], University of Arizona, April 25, 2003.
Wedel, A., and Ussishkin, A. “Loanword Adaptation Asymmetries in Austronesian and Articulatory Gestural Programs.” AFLA 10, University of Hawaii, March 29, 2003.
Wedel, A., and Ussishkin, A. “Gestural Motor Programs and the Nature of Phonotactic Restrictions: Evidence from Loanword Phonology.” WCCFL XXII, UC San Diego, March 21, 2003.
Wedel, A., and Ussishkin, A. “Gestural Motor Programs Account for Asymmetries in Loanword Adaptation Patterns.” LSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 3, 2003.
Graf, D., and Ussishkin, A. “Loanword Phonology in Modern Hebrew.” Presented at the Workshop on The Integration of Foreign Words, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Mannheim, Germany, March 1, 2002.
Ussishkin, A., and Wedel, A. “Neighborhood Density and the Root-Affix Distinction.” Presented at NELS 32, New York University and the City University of New York, October 21, 2001.
Ussishkin, A. “Fixed Prosody and the Epiphenomenon of Root-and-Pattern Morphology.” Presented at the Workshop on Root and Template Morphology, Conference on the Syntax and Semantics of Semitic Languages, University of Southern California, May 6, 2001.
Ussishkin, A. “Templatic Effects as Fixed Prosody: The Verbal System in Semitic.” Presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Université Paris 7, France, June 28, 2000.
Graf, D., and Ussishkin, A. “Emergent Iambs: Stress Assignment in Modern Hebrew.” Presented at the Workshop on Prosodic Morphology in Semitic, IATL 16, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2, 2000.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 14 Ussishkin, A. “Fixed Prosody in Semitic Prosodic Morphology.” Presented at the Workshop on Prosodic Morphology in Semitic, IATL 16, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 11, 2000.
Ussishkin, A. “Fixed Prosodic Effects in Austronesian: An Optimality-Theoretic Account.” Presented at AFLA 7, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 11, 2000.
Ussishkin, A. “Fixed Prosody in the Arabic Verb.” Presented at the 14th Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, UC Berkeley, February 25, 2000.
Ussishkin, A. “Maximal Stem Size and Faithfulness in Modern Hebrew.” Presented at the Workshop on the Phonological Word, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Marburg, Germany, March 2, 2000.
Sherman [Ussishkin], A. “Root-and-Pattern Morphology Without Roots or Patterns.” Presented at NELS 30, Rutgers University, October 23, 1999.
Wedel, A., and Sherman [Ussishkin], A. “Entropy and Language Structure: Toward an Explanation of Regularity in Creole Grammar.” Presented at the 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Stockholm, Sweden, July 16, 1999.
Sherman [Ussishkin], A. “The Inadequacy of the Root: Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew and Output-Output Correspondence.” Presented at WCCFL 18, University of Arizona, April 9, 1999.
Sherman [Ussishkin], A. “Correspondence Relations and Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew.” Presented at IATL 14, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel, June 9, 1998.
Sherman [Ussishkin], A. “Roots and Correspondence: Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew.” Presented at the SWOT 4, University of Arizona, April 20, 1998.
Karvonen, D., and Sherman [Ussishkin], A. “Opacity in Icelandic: A Sympathy Account.” Presented at NELS 28, University of Toronto, October 25, 1997.
Teaching experience
2019 Workshop: Priming methods in word recognition (graduate and undergraduate); co-taught with Jonathan Geary (University of Arizona), LSA Summer Institute, University of California, Davis, June 26, 2019.
2011 Ling 7800-03, Comparative Arabic and Semitic syntax and morphology (graduate and undergraduate); co-taught with Professor Elabbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois), LSA Summer Institute, University of Colorado, July 2011.
2001-present: University of Arizona Courses taught: Spring, 2019 Ling 211: Meaning in Language and Life (online; undergraduate); enrollment: 55 students
Fall, 2018 Ling 432: Psychology of Language (undergraduate); enrollment: 27 students
Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 22 students
Spring, 2018 Ling 548: Auditory and visual word recognition and lexical processing (graduate); enrollment: 6 students
Ling 689: Professionalism (graduate); enrollment: 9 students
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Hnrs 195: Freshman honors seminar (topic: language processing); enrollment: 17 students
Fall, 2016 Ling 410/510: Foundations of Phonological Theory I (undergraduate/graduate); enrollment: 21 students (15 graduate, 6 undergraduate)
Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 29 students
Hnrs 195: Freshman honors seminar (topic: language processing); enrollment: 18 students
Spring, 2016 Psyc/Ling 542: Lexical access (graduate); enrollment: 7 students
Ling/MENAS 454/554: Structure of Hebrew; enrollment: 12 students (8 graduate, 4 undergraduate)
Ling 689: Professionalism (graduate); enrollment: 6 students
Fall, 2015 Ling/Psyc 201: Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate); enrollment: 40 students
Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 35 students
Hnrs 195-001: Freshman honors seminar (topic: native habitat restoration); enrollment: 18 students
Spring, 2015 Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 35 students
Ling 697A: Linguistic Theory (graduate); enrollment: 5 students
Ling 689: Professionalism (graduate); enrollment: 9 students
Ling 495A/595A: Linguistics colloquium; enrollment: 24 students (15 graduate, 9 undergraduate)
Fall, 2014 Ling 432: Psychology of Language (undergraduate); enrollment: 65 students
Ling 516: History of Phonology (graduate); enrollment: 9 students
Hnrs 195-001: Freshman honors seminar (topic: native habitat restoration); enrollment: 12 students
Ling 495A/595A: Linguistics colloquium; enrollment: 27 students (15 graduate, 12 undergraduate)
Spring, 2014 Ling 689: Professionalism (graduare); enrollment: 4 students
Ling 697A: Linguistic Theory (graduate); enrollment: 7 students
Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 39 students
Fall, 2013 Ling 535: Morphology (graduate); enrollment: 10 students
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Hnrs 195-007: Freshman honors seminar (topic: native habitat restoration); enrollment: 12 students
Spring, 2013 Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 44 students
Ling 310: Linguistic Typology (undergraduate); enrollment: 22 students
Fall, 2012 Ling/Eng 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (undergraduate); enrollment: 81 students
Ling/Psyc 201: Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate); enrollment: 55 students
Spring, 2012 Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 25 students
Ling 697A: Linguistic Theory (graduate); enrollment: 7 students
Fall, 2011 Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 40 students
Ling 535: Morphology (graduate); enrollment: 9 students
Spring, 2011 Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 35 students
Ling 310: Linguistic Typology (undergraduate); enrollment: 20 students
Fall, 2010 Ling/Psyc 201: Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate); enrollment: 45 students
Ling/Eng 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (undergraduate); enrollment: 55 students
Fall, 2009 Ling/Psyc 201: Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate); enrollment: 40 students
Ling 516: History of Phonology (graduate); enrollment: 8 students
Spring, 2009 Ling 514: Foundations of Phonological Theory II (graduate); enrollment: 14 students
Ling 697A: Linguistic Theory (graduate); enrollment: 8 students
Fall, 2008 Ling 410/510: Foundations of Phonological Theory I (undergraduate/graduate); enrollment: 21 students (17 graduate, 4 undergraduate)
Spring, 2008 Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 22 students
Ling 516: History of Phonology (graduate); enrollment: 5 students
Fall, 2007 Ling 410/510: Foundations of Phonological Theory I (undergraduate/graduate); enrollment: 22 students (14 graduate, 8 undergraduate)
Ling 697A: Linguistic Theory (graduate); enrollment: 2 students
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Ling 696B: Seminar in Phonology (graduate); enrollment: 5 students
Fall, 2005 Ling/Psyc 201: Introduction to Linguistics (2 sections; undergraduate); enrollment: 90 students
Ling 410/510: Foundations of Phonological Theory I (undergraduate/graduate); enrollment: 10 students (5 graduate, 5 undergraduate)
Spring, 2005 Ling/Near Eastern Studies 454/554: Structure of a Middle Eastern Language (undergraduate/graduate); enrollment: 10 students
Ling 514: Foundations of Phonological Theory II (graduate); enrollment: 7 students (6 graduate, 1 undergraduate)
Fall, 2004: Ling 697A: Linguistic Theory (graduate); enrollment: 8 students
Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 20 students
Spring, 2004: Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 37 students
Fall, 2003: Ling 696B: Seminar in Phonology (graduate; co-taught with Andrew Wedel); enrollment: 10 students
Ling 410/510: Foundations of Phonological Theory I (undergraduate/graduate); enrollment: 20 students (12 graduate, 10 undergraduate)
Ling/English 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (undergraduate); enrollment: 50 students
Spring, 2003: Ling 696B: Seminar in Phonology (graduate); enrollment: 5 students
Ling 514: Foundations of Phonological Theory II (graduate); enrollment: 16 students
Fall, 2002: Ling 410/510: Foundations of Phonological Theory I (undergraduate/graduate); enrollment: 20 students (12 graduate, 8 undergraduate)
Ling/English 322: The Structure and Meaning of Words (undergraduate); enrollment: 45 students
Summer, 2002: Indv. 101: Individuals and Societies: Language (undergraduate); enrollment: 16 students
Spring, 2002: Ling 514: Foundations of Phonological Theory II (graduate); enrollment: 10 students (9 graduate, 1 undergraduate)
Ling 315: Introduction to Phonology (undergraduate); enrollment: 28 students
Fall, 2001: Indv. 101: Individuals and Societies: Language (undergraduate); enrollment: 361 students
Indv. 101: Individuals and Societies: Language (undergraduate honors section); enrollment: 21 students
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Winter, 2000: Ling 51: Phonetics (undergraduate); enrollment: 31 students
Spring, 1999: Ling 51: Phonetics (undergraduate); enrollment: 50 students
Summer, 1997, 1998: Ling 80-G: Modern English Grammar (undergraduate); enrollment: 10 students
1997: Teaching Assistant Training Coordinator, University of California, Santa Cruz
1996-2000: Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz Courses: Advanced phonology, Introduction to phonology, Phonetics, Introduction to syntax, Introduction to linguistics, Introductory Hebrew, The nature and language of computers
Community outreach presentations
2015 “The origins and development of Hebrew and Yiddish”, invited community presentation, Secular Humanist Jewish Circle of Tucson, March 7, 2014.
2014 “What speaking Maltese tells us about language and the brain (and other things).”. 2-hour lecture for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s 2014 lecture series on Speaking Our Minds, October 6, 2014 (60 enrolled students).
2012 “What speaking Maltese tells us about language (and other things).” 2-hour lecture for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s 2012 lecture series on Speaking Our Minds, September 24, 2012 (65 enrolled students).
2012 “A linguistic journey through Hebrew and related/unrelated languages.” 2-part lecture for Sekhel ve-Lev guest lecture series, Tucson Jewish Community Center and Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. January 24 and 31, 2012.
Research positions
2001, Summer Guest researcher, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany; SFB Project: Root and pattern morphology
1999, Spring Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz; NSF Project: The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon; Junko Ito and Armin Mester, Co-Principal Investigators
1998, Summer, Fall Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz; Perceptual Science Lab, Dominic Massaro, Principal Investigator
1997, Summer Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz; NSF Project: The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon; Junko Ito and Armin Mester, Co-Principal Investigators
1995 Research Assistant, UCLA; NIH project: The Neurology of Language; Departments of Linguistics, Neurology, and Pediatrics, Susan Curtiss, Co- Principal Investigator
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Member, organizing committee, Workshop on Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition, July 22-23, 2017, University of Kentucky.
Associate Editor, Language and Speech (2016-present)
Member, Program Committee, Linguistic Society of America (2016–2018)
Vice president, International Association of Maltese Linguistics (June 2015-present)
External Examiner, Linguistics/synoptics, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta (2015-2017)
National Science Foundation, GRF panelist (January, 2013)
National Science Foundation, panelist (April, 2013; October 2013; April 2014; October 2014)
Advisory board Il-Lingwa Tagħna (Our Language – International Association of Maltese Linguistics) (2007-present) Ilsienna (Working Papers of the International Association of Maltese Linguistics) (2007-2015)
Editorial board Journal of Linguistics (2007-2014)
Guest editor Morphology, vol. 16 (special issue on Semitic morphology, 2006)
Editor Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC] 6 (1999)
Article reviewer Linguistic Inquiry, Phonology, Journal of Linguistics, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua, Cognition, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL), Syntax, Studies in Arabic Linguistics, Morphology, Word Structure, Journal of Memory and Language, Diachronica
Abstract reviewer Linguistic Society of America (LSA); Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL); Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), American International Morphology Meeting, Mental Lexicon Conference, Roots Conference
Book reviewer Linguist List, Phonology
University, committee, and departmental service
2019-2020 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2019-present Chair, Institutional Review Board, University of Arizona
2018-present Member, Sabbatical Review Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
2017-present Member, Cognitive Science Graduate Interdisciplinary Program executive committee
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 20 2017 Faculty panelist, “Debunking faculty job interview myths”, organized panel hosted by the University of Arizona Postdoctoral Association, October 12, 2017.
2016 Member, Academic Program Review (APR) Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2013-present Alternate member, University of Arizona Institutional Review Board (IRB)
2013 Grade appeals committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
2013-present Member, Human Subjects Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2012-present Head, Graduate Recruitment Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2010-2011 Member, program committee; member, registration committee, WCCFL Conference (April 22-24, 2011, University of Arizona)
2010-2014 Member, Advisory Board, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona
2009-2010 Member, Dean’s Audit Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
2008-2009 Head, Academic Program Review (APR) Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2007-present Teaching Assistant Supervisor and Coordinator, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2004-2008 Member, review panel, Faculty Small Grants Program, University of Arizona
2003-2005 Member, Peer Evaluation Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2003-present Member/head, Curriculum Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
2003 Co-organizer, Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory [SWOT], University of Arizona. April 24-26, 2003
2002-2005 Member, Millennium Report Oversight Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
2001-2015 Web master, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
1998 Member, Executive Vice Chancellor search committee, UC Santa Cruz.
Version 08/20/2019 Adam Ussishkin – page 21 Service as primary advisor (*) or member of student dissertation or qualifying committees Abdulrahman Alamri, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa Essa Alfaifi, Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona Skye Anderson, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Drake Asberry, SLAT Program, University of Arizona Maya Barzilai, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University Essa Batel, SLAT Program, University of Arizona Elise Bell, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Jeff Berry, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Lindsay Butler, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Lynnika Butler, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Tasha Campbell, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona *Shiloh Drake, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Fatima El-Hamdi, Mohammed V University of Rabat and Université Paris VIII Luke Galea, Institute of Phonetics, University of Cologne *Jonathan Geary, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Catherine Hicks-Kennard, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Julianne Hammink, SLAT Program, University of Arizona Nadia Hamrouni, SLAT Program, University of Arizona Mans Hulden, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Keith Johnson, SLAT Program, University of Arizona Kyle Jones, Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona Robert Kennedy, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Greg Key, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Emily Kidder, Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology, University of Arizona Rachel Kraut, SLAT Program, University of Arizona *Amy LaCross, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Mariela Lopez, SLAT Program, University of Arizona Lionel Mathieu, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona *Jorge Muriel, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Noah Nelson, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Naomi Ogasawara, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Jeff Punske, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Sylvia Reed Schreiner, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Leah Rice, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona Jae-Hyun Sung, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona *Kevin Schluter, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona *Alina Twist, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona *Samantha Wray, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Other relevant work experience
2000 Phonetic Transcriber, TellMe Corporation.
1997-1998 French editor, translator, and linguistic consultant, International Access/Ability Corporation, Santa Cruz.
Languages
French (near-native fluency), Modern Hebrew (very good), some knowledge of Arabic, Ancient Greek, Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, German, Maltese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
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